It has been cold and raining for two days. Today the sun is out; the kids next door are playing basketball in their drive; and my wife and I spent the afternoon planting summer annuals in two of our pots. These are our front door “welcoming” pots, so it’s important that they get a good start. Driving about this morning it dawned on me that blossoms were bursting forth on dogwoods, azaleas and the wild wisteria that is taking over parts of the nearby woods. Were they there two days ago before the rain? Had I just not noticed them? It seemed to me that today they suddenly burst forth; they were “first sightings.”

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About johnvic8

John Viccellio retired after 24 years in the U. S. Navy and began to dig into gardening when he could finally land in one place. He completed the Master Gardener course in 1992 and has since designed and constructed two of his own gardens. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years and has been a regular contributor to Carolina Gardener magazine. John published his first book, Guess What's in My Garden!, in 2014.
He lives in Stallings, NC with his wife, in close proximity to seven of his eight grandchildren.

One Response to What a Difference!

I love the sentiment here. Today I walked past a foot tall insidious yellow flowering Coridalis (that smells Alain to me) and I swear that it was not there two days ago! It was already flowering and had a healthy cluster of seeds already set.

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